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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli was let off on Tuesday after being found guilty of violating the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) anti-corruption code.

Kohli met his girlfriend Bollywood star Anushka Sharma in the stands at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during a rain-break in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Delhi Daredevils on Sunday, violating the anti-corruption code.

The match was abandoned due to rain.

Kohli was informed of the violation by BCCI anti-corruption unit head Ravi Sawani, reports Cricinfo on Tuesday.

The Zimbabwe cricket team arrived in Lahore on Tuesday, the first test-playing nation to tour Pakistan since a gun attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus in 2009 had left six policemen and a van driver dead.

Armed security personnel guarded airport and the entire route as they drove to the hotel.

During their tour, the tourists will play two Twenty-20 internationals and three ODIs. All the matches will be held in Lahore .

Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi will meet the farmers who were affected by the recent unseasonal rain in his parliamentary constituency Amethi today.

Arriving on Monday, Rahul Gandhi had said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre had cancelled the Amethi Food Park out of vengeance.

“If the food park comes to existence you all will benefit from it. The BJP cancelled the Food Park just out of vengeance,” Gandhi said.

An air passenger coming from Abu Dhabi was arrested by the Customs officials at Shamshabad International Airport on Monday for trying to smuggle 2 kg of gold.

With an intention to hoodwink the Customs officials at the Airport, the passenger hid gold biscuits in the place of cellphone batteries and tried to hoodwink the Customs officials. However, the officials detected the gold inside the cellphones and took him into custody for questioning.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet President Pranab Mukherjee today amidst escalating tensions between his government and Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung over the appointment of senior IAS officer Shakuntala Gamlin as acting Chief Secretary.

Kejriwal had sought appointment for a meeting with the President. According to sources in the Chief Minister’s Office, the Rashtrapati Bhavan has given him appointment at 6 pm.

Louisiana’s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal has taken another step towards a possible 2016 presidential run by forming an exploratory committee and launching a national website, www.bobbyjindal.com.

Though Jindal has said he still isn’t an official candidate yet, he is expected to formally enter the race after the Louisiana Legislature adjourns on June 11, according to local Times Picayune newspaper.

Annual Urs of Hazrath Baba Sharfuddin Suhrawardy starts today. After Zohar prayers drums will be beaten at Gulzar Houz, Panjashah. The procession will start from Panjashah and passing through Charminar, Shah Ali Banda, Masjid Jangammeth, it will reach Pahadi Shareef. Peerzada Syed Fareeduddin Suhrawardy will offer special prayer to mark the end of the procession.

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Daughter of CM of Telangana, Ms. K. Kavitha made a thrilling remark that if PM Mr. Modi offers, TRS is ready to join Central Cabinet. Addressing a press conference at Nizamabad yesterday, Ms. Kavitha told that if offer comes from Mr. Modi, TRS will consider it seriously.

BCCI will announce the Test and one-day team for next month’s Bangladesh tour on Wednesday after the selection committee meeting in Mumbai.

India are slated to play a one-off Test starting June 10 followed by three ODIs in Mirpur on 18, 21 and 24.

“All-India Senior Selection Committee will meet at the Cricket Centre, Mumbai, at 12:00 pm on Wednesday, 20 May 2015, to pick the Indian teams for the Test match and ODI series against Bangladesh, in June 2015,” a BCCI media release stated.

“The meeting will be followed by a media conference. Mr.

As many as 75 people Monday crossed the Line of Control (LoC) across the Aman Setu bridge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district as part of the Karvan-e-Aman (caravan of peace) between the parts of divided Kashmir, an official said.

“Of these, 42 are residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir who came here today (Monday) to meet members of their divided families. Five people crossed over to Muzaffarabad from our side to unite with members of their families living there,” a senior official told IANS on phone from Baramulla town.

More than 6,500 families have been displaced as the Islamic State (IS) militant group has reached the Iraqi city of Ramadi, deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said here on Monday.

Among the 6,500 families that have fled Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s largest province Anbar, over 3,300 families have moved towards the Fallujah area and more than 2,300 families travelled towards the Khalidiyah area, Xinhua quoted Haq as saying.

Khaldiyah Hospital has reported receiving many casualties, and the local authorities have requested assistance from the international agencies, Haq said.

Turkey will take to the UN Human Rights Commission the verdict of death sentences on former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood, Turkish presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said on Monday.

“We are continuing our consultations firstly with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf countries. We are reviewing current mechanisms for international initiatives. We plan to start necessary initiatives soon, to at the UN Human Rights Committee at first hand,” Kalin told reporters in a press conference.

Criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his visit to China, senior VHP leader Acharya Dharmendra Maharaj today said the neighbouring country was not “trustworthy” and the PM should instead focus on strengthening relations with Israel.

“China is not a trustworthy friend…A man with self respect would never visit China after that country showed a map of India without Jammu and Kashmir. China has been investing huge money in the Pak-occupied J&K for strengthening the infrastructure facilities there,” he said on the sidelines of an event here.

At least 33 Islamic State terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by the international coalition on Monday in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh.

A militia leader from the Sinjar protection force, Luqman Kili al-Khansuri told Efe that the coalition launched more than seven air raids since Monday morning, targeting IS positions in the town of Sinjar, 120 km west of Mosul, provincial capital of Nineveh.

In addition to killing 33 IS militants, the air raids destroyed four of its bases and six of its military vehicles, according to al-Khansuri.

Iran called on Monday for the United Nations’ assistance to deliver humanitarian supplies to war-torn Yemen, media reported.

“The UN needs to create a protected zone in Yemen so that humanitarian aid could be delivered,” Iranian Tasnim News quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as saying in a joint press conference here.

It is time for the UN to take control of the situation in the impoverished Arab country, he said, adding that the international body should shoulder the responsibility for extending the truce in the Arab state.

Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Monday said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) had been set up to probe the alleged encounter of wanted criminal Manoj Vashishtha at a restaurant in the national capital.

“We have formed SIT, its aim is clear that investigation should be conducted on merits and on top speed. Whatever we will do, that is going to be scrutinized by concerned court and National Human Rights Commission,” said Bassi .

Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased held a protest and a candle light vigil outside the Lady Hardinge hospital in the city.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has decided that women soldiers cannot drive tanks in light of an investigation that concluded that the task is “beyond their physiological limitation”, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Monday.

The IDF recently conducted a series of physiological tests to determine which tasks may be prohibited for women, concluding that driving tanks is a job suitable only for men.

The military agreed for the first time last year to hold training courses for female soldiers in the elite artillery unit and the unit that operates small drones.

Congress vice resident Rahul Gandhi will inaugurate the year-long celebrations of B.R. Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary on June 2 at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh.

A party release said June 2 marks the centenary of B.R. Ambedkar’s graduation from Columbia University in the US.

Gandhi is also the co-chairperson of a party committee set up for the birth anniversary celebrations.

The Islamic State terrorist group has executed one of its prominent judges in its northern Syrian stronghold of Raqqa for being too “moderate”, Siraj Press reported on Monday.

The Sunni extremist group executed Turki al-Ani because he was too lenient, especially with alleged apostates, Siraj Press cited sources close to the Syrian opposition as saying.

Ani, known as Abu Abdallah, was killed after he issued passes to members of a group with alleged ties to the Syrian government, allowing them to move freely in Raqqa, Siraj Press said.

A 16-year-old girl was mowed down by a youth on a motorcycle in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district after she allegedly rejected his advances, police said Monday.

The incident happened under Canning police station area in the district on Sunday.

According to the police complaint filed by the victim’s family on Monday, the youth used to regularly harass the class 10 student. On Sunday, he again approached the girl and enraged by her rejection, he mowed down her with his motorcycle.

At the end of five full days of a humanitarian truce, Saudi Arabia has reignited its war machine, pounding Yemen with missiles and artillery.

Saudi Arabia resumed its offensive on the impoverished Arab country hours after the end of the ceasefire, which expired at 11 p.m. on Sunday, with Saudi warplanes pounding a number of civilian and military centres in the Aden, Hajjah, and Sa’ada provinces, Iran’s Press TV reported on Monday.

The Congress on Monday criticised the BJP-led NDA government for “doing nothing except making promises and announcements” in past one year, and for falling short on various promises it made before coming to power.

Comparing the working style of the central government with that of the three formats of cricket matches – T-20, One-day and Tests – Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told a press conference here the Narendra Modi government failed to deliver on all fronts.

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the Islamic Hamas movement on Monday slammed remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Jerusalem will remain under Israel’s jurisdiction.

Nabil Abu Rdineh, spokesman of the PNA presidency, said in a press statement that Netanyahu’s remarks contradict UN resolutions and violate international conventions, Xinhua news agency reported.

“There will be no peace or settlement in the Middle East without having east Jerusalem as the capital of Palestinian state,” said Abu Rdineh.

Zimbabwe’s cricket team have left here to take part in tour of Pakistan, the first in that country in six years.

The Dawn quoted Zimbabwe Cricket Association spokesman Lovemore Banda, as saying on Monday that the team would reach Pakistan via Dubai on Tuesday.

Last week, there were doubts whether the five-match tour going ahead following the massacre of 45 Shias in an attack on a bus in Karachi.

It is the first tour of Pakistan by a Test-level team since seven Sri Lankan cricketers were wounded during a 2009 attack by militants in Lahore.

Soon after bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar was made the principal secretary (services) by the AAP government on Monday, Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung rejected his appointment saying it did not have his approval.

These developments further escalated the tussle between the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government and the Lt. Governor.

Kumar was made principal secretary (services), replacing Anindo Majumdar.